Chester William Harrison
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Chester William Harrison (born Indiana 1913-1994) was a prolific American author who wrote under the names C. William Harrison, Coe Williams and Will Hickok. He wrote up to 1200 novels, non fiction books and pulp and slick magazine stories.
His Collier's Weekly
two part magazine story Petticoat Brigade was purchased by Audie Murphy
and co-produced with Harry Joe Brown
as the 1957 film The Guns of Fort Petticoat
. Harrison did a novelisation of the screenplay and the original stories under the same title in the same year.
Under the name Will Hickock he wrote three sestern novels Web of Gunsmoke (1955), The Restless Gun (1959) and Trail of the Gun (1960) the latter two tie-ins with the American television show The Restless Gun
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His non fiction works include Conservation, the Challenge of Reclaiming our Plundered Land, Find a Career in Auto Mechanics, Here Is Your Career: The Building Trades and Here is Your Career, Auto Mechanic.
Biography
Harrison worked as a portrait photographer and a builder of house trailers where he had his first fictional story published in 1936. His first novel Boothill Trail was published in 1940.His Collier's Weekly
Collier's Weekly
Collier's Weekly was an American magazine founded by Peter Fenelon Collier and published from 1888 to 1957. With the passage of decades, the title was shortened to Collier's....
two part magazine story Petticoat Brigade was purchased by Audie Murphy
Audie Murphy
Audie Leon Murphy was a highly decorated and famous soldier. Through LIFE magazine's July 16, 1945 issue , he became one the most famous soldiers of World War II and widely regarded as the most decorated American soldier of the war...
and co-produced with Harry Joe Brown
Harry Joe Brown
Harry Joe Brown was a movie producer and supervisor who was also a theatre and film director...
as the 1957 film The Guns of Fort Petticoat
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
The Guns of Fort Petticoat is a 1957 Technicolor Western produced by Harry Joe Brown and Audie Murphy for Columbia Pictures. It was based on the 1955 short story "Petticoat Brigade" by Chester William Harrison that he expanded into a novelization for the film's release. It was directed by George...
. Harrison did a novelisation of the screenplay and the original stories under the same title in the same year.
Under the name Will Hickock he wrote three sestern novels Web of Gunsmoke (1955), The Restless Gun (1959) and Trail of the Gun (1960) the latter two tie-ins with the American television show The Restless Gun
The Restless Gun
The Restless Gun is a western television series that appeared on NBC between 1957 and 1959, with John Payne in the role of Vint Bonner, a wandering cowboy in the era after the American Civil War. A skilled gunfighter, Bonner is an idealistic person who prefers peaceful resolutions of conflict...
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His non fiction works include Conservation, the Challenge of Reclaiming our Plundered Land, Find a Career in Auto Mechanics, Here Is Your Career: The Building Trades and Here is Your Career, Auto Mechanic.
External links
- Short story work http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/s1190.htm#A40661
- Books http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&sort=relevancerank&search-alias=books&field-author=C.%20William%20Harrison